This bill extends for four years, from June 30, 2012 to June 30, 2016, the nursing home bed certificate of need (CON) moratorium under which the Department of Social Services cannot approve requests for additional nursing home beds or modify the cost of any prior approval, with certain exceptions.

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Medicaid-certified beds to be relocated (a) from one licensed facility to another, (b) to a new facility to meet a priority need under the state's strategic plan to rebalance the Medicaid long-term care system, or (c) to a small house nursing home;

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requests for up to 20 beds by private-pay facilities that demonstrate their financial ability to provide lifetime services to all residents without participating in Medicaid;

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requests for up to 20 beds for a free standing facility providing hospice care;
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up to 60 new or existing Medicaid-certified beds being relocated from one location to another in a municipality with an estimated population of 125,000.